BPXAS is the jobstep task when a Unix application spawns a process that runs in a separate address space. It is an initiator for Unix workloads and over the course of its lifetime may run processes spawned by multiple users. I couln't find any documentation of the generated JCK beyond the BPXAS proc itself; in particular, I don't know whether the installation can provide a JOB card and accompanying // OUTPUT card for BPXAS in the IEFJOBS concatenation.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Charles Mills [charl...@mcn.org] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2023 5:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: What is BPXAS and how do I make them stop piling up? Humor me here. I assume this is basic system programming, but I don't claim to be a sysprog. We have a Dallas system. Something in our usage patterns or something has changed recently to where we end up with spool filled up with BPXAS jobs and we eventually run out of JQEs which is not a Good Thing. Can someone tell me what BPXAS is, and more importantly, what to change in the proc so that the jobs will go away rather than hanging out in spool until I manually purge them. When I do an ST I see a bunch of them running, and a whole bunch in Print, but I don't see them when I do a DA. Here's a typical example: 09.22.31 STC01149 ---- MONDAY, 10 APR 2023 ---- 09.22.31 STC01149 $HASP373 BPXAS STARTED 09.22.31 STC01149 BPXP024I BPXAS INITIATOR STARTED ON BEHALF OF JOB SSHD4 RUNNING IN ASID 0042 1 //BPXAS JOB MSGLEVEL=1 STC01149 2 //BPXAS EXEC BPXAS,GETWORK=BPXPRJSR XX*-------------------------------------------------------------------- 00050000 3 XXIEFPROC EXEC PGM=IEFIIC,DPRTY=12,PARM=',,&GETWORK,BPXPRJRW' 00100000 XX********************************************************************/ 00200000 XX* */ 00250000 XX*01* PROCEDURE NAME : BPXAS */ 00300000 XX* */ 00550000 XX*01* FUNCTION: Used to start the MVS initiator */ 00600000 XX* */ 00650000 XX*01* COMPONENT: SC1B6 (Initiator) */ 00700000 XX* */ 00800000 XX*01* DISTRIBUTION LIBRARY: SYS1.PROCLIB */ 00850000 XX********************************************************************/ 01850000 IEFC653I SUBSTITUTION JCL - PGM=IEFIIC,DPRTY=12,PARM=',,BPXPRJSR,BPXPRJRW' STMT NO. MESSAGE 2 IEFC001I PROCEDURE BPXAS WAS EXPANDED USING SYSTEM LIBRARY SYS1.PROCLIB IEFA111I BPXAS IS USING THE FOLLOWING JOB RELATED SETTINGS: SWA=ABOVE,TIOT SIZE=32K,DSENQSHR=DISALLOW,GDGBIAS=JOB ******************************** BOTTOM OF DATA ************************************************ Thanks, Charles Not a Systems Programmer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
